Quotes About Happiness

Tears appreciate in this economy of pleasure.

Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.

I was happy for him. He did not have a sunken molue in his brain. Rastafarians and diseased children didn't torment him. He hadn't been a salesman of nightmares- he had only ever been their administrator.

Besides, you are seeking something you have already found but don't knoit. Such are the causes of unhappiness.

Besides, you are seeking something you have already found, but don't know it. Such are the causes of unhappiness.

Our two dogs, Scamper (an ancient beagle-basset) and Tinker (a small, friendly dog of indeterminate breed), provided some diversion.

so I wasn't particularly happy about the comments.

The closer I got to my finish line, that rubbley (ph) rocky coast of Ross Island, the more I started to realize that the biggest lesson that this very long, very-hard walk might be teaching me is that happiness is not a finish line and that if we can't feel content on our journeys amidst the mess and the striving that we all inhabit - the open loops, the half-finished to-do lists, the could-do-better-next-times - then we might never feel it.

Lasting happiness can only be achieved through cultivation of soul and mind. And cultivating our souls and minds requires us to live with moral purpose.

You know what's fun? Christmas lights. They are twinkly an pretty and they make me happy, because they are twinkly and pretty.

Like the Bible, Aristotle didn't define happiness as temporary joy. He saw happiness in a life well-lived.

The Passions of men," Hobbes writes, "are commonly more potent than their Reason." Reason cannot bring happiness, nor can it be used as the goal of a philosophical life. There is no happiness. There is only striving and security and passion. Reason cannot save us from the war of all against all; only the Leviathan, the power of the state, can.21

Politics is about working to build the framework for the pursuit of happiness, not the achievement of it; politics helps us establish the preconditions necessary for happiness, but can't provide happiness in and of itself.

Happiness is the pursuit of purpose in our lives. If we have lived with moral purpose, even death becomes less painful.

The philosophy of the United States centers on three central principles, as articulated in the Declaration: on the reality of natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that preexist government; on the equality of men before the law; and on the notion that government is instituted only to protect those preexisting rights and equality of men before the law.

That's why Thomas Jefferson didn't write that the government was granted power to grant you happiness: it was there to protect your pursuit of happiness. The government existed to protect your rights, to prevent those rights from being infringed upon.

We're instead pursuing other priorities: physical pleasure, emotional catharsis, monetary stability. All these things are important, of course, but they don't bring lasting happiness.

As already noted, communal purpose was wrapped up with individual purpose: if the goal of the individual was to find happiness through virtuous citizenry, the goal of the community had to be promotion of that virtue.

The Athenian system of thought establishes certain fundamental notions crucial to happiness: the notion of telos, discoverable by us; the importance of reason-led investigation, leading to the birth of science; the recognition that social ties bind us to one another.

Life is for living.

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Happiness is being grateful for what you have and having an attitude of gratitude instead of an attitude of envy.

My parents just had their 50th anniversary and they're happier than ever. They have each other's back–I think that's what it's about.